Day: May 1, 2019

Werner Herzog and Mikhail Gorbachev in Meeting Gorbachev (A&E Networks) Gorbachev started something that got away from him, and we should all be glad he did. Were you harboring any doubts about whether Mikhail Gorbachev…

National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. We launch the National Review 2019 Spring Webathon for good reasons and for grand ambitions. One ambition is material: We hope to raise $175,000 in May. More if…

Former Vice President Joe Biden addresses a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 30, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Biden may flame out in 2020 as Bush did in 2016, but in several key respects he’s…

(File photo: Robert Galbraith/Reuters) The push to allow felons to vote is more about gaining Democratic voters than rehabilitating people. Bernie Sanders, the Brooklyn socialist who represents Vermont in the Senate, has called for extending…

President Jimmy Carter signs an extension of the Equal Rights Amendment at the White House, Oct. 20, 1978. (White House/National Archives) It is long past time to bury the proposed amendment. Is the federal Equal…

Attendees at the National Rifle Association annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., April 27, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The NRA’s problems have little to do with the typical criticisms hurled at it by its biggest detractors. The…

Robert Mueller in 2011 (Eric Thayer/Reuters) In a March 27 letter to Attorney General William Barr, Special Counsel Robert Mueller complained that the four-page summary of his report released by Barr “did not fully capture…